you say “This is just a fight over pork in Huntsville, Houston and the Cape. “
So you’re okay with obama illegally bypassing Congress on this - and funneling the money from NASA to ‘predominantly Muslim countries”?
The money IS gong to be spent. Get it?
this is obama’s unltimate ‘redistribution of our money”.
People, we have to watch what he is doing with his left hand while he’s busy waving his right hand around in front of our faces. (and remember, with Muslims, the left hand does the truly dirty work,)
“(NASA) mission will shift from space exploration to Muslim diplomacy, as per the commander-in-chief’s orders.”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/nasa-focus-muslim-outreach
“Some 7,000 space industry workers will lose their jobs by the time the shuttle program ends, causing the loss of 14,000 public sector jobs and raising the unemployment rate to near 15 percent in Brevard.” (that will actually be about 36,000 out of work)
http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2010/01/boeing-lays-off-36-workers.shtml
and in Houston, even a DEMOCRAT candidate is asking for impeachment:
This is out only shot to stop this - email tonight, call and email tomorrow. Demand Congress take back their legal responsibility and do the right thing.
Or start learning the Koran
That's not happening. There is no money in the new budget for "Muslim countries."
The money IS gong to be spent. Get it?
If course it is, this year. The issue is the new budget for next year. There's no way to prevent the Constellation money from being wasted on a dead-end program this year.
“(NASA) mission will shift from space exploration to Muslim diplomacy, as per the commander-in-chief’s orders.”
This is nutty. There is no "shift from space exploration" at all, let alone one to Muslim countries. There is just an outreach to some Muslim countries to see if they want to cooperate on space. I'm not thrilled with that, and it's kind of pointless, but there is no current proposal to send them money from the exploration budget.
“Some 7,000 space industry workers will lose their jobs by the time the shuttle program ends, causing the loss of 14,000 public sector jobs and raising the unemployment rate to near 15 percent in Brevard.” (that will actually be about 36,000 out of work)
That's a shame, but it was a Bush decision to end the Shuttle this year, made in 2004. It's stupid to cry about it now and blame Obama. They should have been trying to change the policy years ago, when there was still time, and the production lines hadn't been shut down for two years.